A story about a group of maligned basketmakers hiding in the hills of Upstate New York whose work had always been thought to be made by the Shakers.

The foreward to Legend of the Bushwhacker Basket reads as follows:

Your long months of research exposing one of early America's fading, skilled trades, that of the Taghkanic basketmakers, has restored the respect to our family heritage that we once alone felt. The Legend of the Bushwhacker Basket will record in history what surely would have been lost in time. You have mantled our family heritage as trophies in an American dream. -Rev. Gordon Proper